Rhyming Verse Quotes

#1. Let all the green leaves be mine
as long as the trees define
shades created by their limbs
for the soil made with victims
of atrocity's vileness
to redeem the fragileness

Munia Khan

#2. I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

Joyce Rachelle

#3. Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.

Elie Metchnikoff

#4. Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -
That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.
The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?),
The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
You think this cruel? Take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Alexander Pope

#5. I wonder at the starry pattern in the sky
Are they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?

Munia Khan

#6. In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.

Akiko Busch

#7. There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

Xenophon

#8. It's okay to be addicted to beauty," Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Jandy Nelson

#9. Because when you stop worrying about what anyone else things, life gets a whole lot easier".

April WIlliams

#10. Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

John Witherspoon

#11. A glassy calm replaced the storm surrounding their boat.
The distant thunder struck a note, white-hot and remote.
An invisible magnet seemed to steer their course.
The island pulled them in with its dreamy force.

J.Z. Bingham